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ART MUNOZ We had the depth to have those guys leave. It just made us adjust what we did.
DAVID BRADSHAW The transition was rough at first. In college, we do not just have the one or two good players on th...
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TERRY JONES It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl...
JOHN HOGAN They stepped up a lot in the second half. We didn't really adjust to what they were doing.
JANELLE COOPER It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing de...
MARCUS ALLEN We just have to do what we do and make them adjust to us.
LAZARUS SIMS We played them better than the first time. The second time, we still made silly mistakes, but were a...
JODI SACKVILLE It's been a good transition to this point. The coaches have worked very hard with our players. They ...
JEFF HEACOCK The officials are doing a good job – it's not their job to adjust. ...
BILL GUERIN I think what he's doing is showing everybody what (the A's) lost last year, ... It's always good to ...
BUCK SHOWALTER We set good screens for each other, and we moved the ball. The problem was we were getting beat down...
DIANN DURBIN We knew we were going to have our ups and downs this season. We just talk amongst each other and let...
BRYANT MARKSON We swung the bats well against them. We're going to have to do it (Tuesday). Each game is different,...
BILL KINNEBERG [Metcalf] just didn't have a good night. But like I've told people all year, we have other guys aver...
JASON BUMBLIS We knew we could move the ball on them but we just couldn't hold on to it. In the first half we didn...
GARY GRIFFIN I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly...
DREW POMERANZ I think Eric feels having me here to make that transition will help. Transferring over terminology a...
MATT CHATHAM Had we had a better understanding of what we were doing, we could have saved a good year to a year a...
ANDREW CHESLEY I think we had a little addition by subtraction this year and more guys bought into what we were doi...
MIKE HOLMGREN Their keeper was doing really good and stopped what we did have, and our guys were offsides,
MARK RILEY The transition period was tough, but this now allows us to keep moving forward with what we were doi...
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DEE BROWN We lost some guys to discipline and ineligibility but the guys we were counting on to come back came...
GREGG PATNER Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW [New England Patriots defensive coordinator Eric Mangini, who formerly coached that team's defensive...
AL GOLDEN I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked ...
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INA ELROD Our guys went at them and they were ready to play. They have all the intentions of doing what we're ...
MATT PAINTER Knowing what happened last year, we knew we had to stay in it and stay focused. Last year we were in...
ERIN BROCKA The first few plays, we were doing a lot of man coverage and they were doing crosses (crossing patte...
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RICK COMEGY I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
MAELLE GAVET For us on defense, we just had to do what we had been doing all year. We didn't have to a make any b...
DEMECO RYANS When you replace a Jeremiah a year ago and try to replace Hugh this year, we would never ask those g...
BRIAN DAWKINS This was more physical, there were more battles. The referees have been doing what they say they are...
BILL GUERIN I think they just lost two really good senior guards that are the reason they were able to play so w...
DARRIN HORN Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea...
EVA LANG I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, ...
CHARLAINE HARRIS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
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WILLIAM STAFFORD Things happen like that during the course of the season, and you have to adjust. Everyone has to adj...
CHRIS HUNTER The guys have been gone for a year, so we lost them for a year. Since they got back, due to certain ...
KRISTIE WATERFIELD How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
PINK FLOYD The public should be informed specifically if the marks were adjusted upwards, if so, by how much in...
GEORGE BOINAMO We have only three returning players and no one is going to be in the same position they were in las...
BARB WOODS You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI We have become friends, but first we were customers. Our skills and her needs just met, and we are j...
BETTY CONNELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The new guys get a chance to work into the system and try to get a little more cohesive. We did all ...
DAN WALLACE We were kind of irritated when we heard everyone saying how wide open this tournament was. We were t...
WILL BROWN It's just a bunch of guys doing their best for each other.
DOMINIC SPINALE Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over t...
ROGER WATERS I think with this team, more than any team, you can't have preconceived notions or a preseason plan ...
MIKE BREY The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be...
FRAN DUNPHY This year we're definitely practicing a lot more. We see drills that we're doing for a purpose, not ...
TOM POTI We lost our intensity when we started substituting. Until then, we were doing everything right. Then...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER We were guys who were committed to doing it together, and here we are a lot of years down the road s...
DAVID BRYAN Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.
JAKE HUTTON We had some good looks. Guys were finding each other, we were just playing great Mavericks basketbal...
JOSH HOWARD Last year, I think we were too confident. We were 23-1 entering the tournament and we just thought w...
KYLE LEWIS I'd only do that for a few closers - Mariano Rivera, Billy, [Eric] Gagne and [Trevor] Hoffman, ... T...
UGUETH URBINA He's down for the year, which is a big blow to the team. We lost a great team leader. The other guys...
ALAN CHADWICK We had some guys score points that are new to the varsity lineup this year. When you can lose what w...
DAVE LIPE It's not disappointing to lose; we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetti...
DUSTY AUXIER We lost pressure with the gas. It's not like the electricity where you can just switch it back on. Y...
EDDIE WHITE We were able to play some other guys that hadn't got to play this year. In the long run it was good ...
BRITT BONNEAU Last year we were in the same position. We needed to beat Rowe to win the district championship. I a...
FERNANDO SEGOVIA We lost some guys last year, but we have replaced them with guys that are fired up about playing. Th...
JAY CUTLER We'll do what the courts tell us to do but right now we're just doing what we were hired to do. We d...
PAMELA WALKER [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK It does not happen overnight. You look at what we were doing our first year here and what we were do...
BILL DIEDRICK Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?
RICHELLE MEAD No, they're upset they lost still. I think they're doing what they need to do to win this year.
JUNE JONES Before, we were all duplicating our efforts, reinventing the wheel. Broker training - we were each d...
STEVE ENGELKING We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they wer...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD We were having fun just playing, moving the ball, running in transition, and that's when we were at ...
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ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
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ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
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ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
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ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
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ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
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ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
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ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
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ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
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ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
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ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
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ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
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ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
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ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
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ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
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ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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ERIC HOFFER Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
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ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
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